Description |
1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Contents |
House forms and facades -- Symbols and iconography -- The reception hall -- The courtyard -- The ancestral hall -- The living areas -- The bedroom -- The kitchen |
Summary |
Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays these extraordinary objects, visible markers of a highly developed culture. The broad range of beautiful objects which the Peranakan Chinese created and enjoyed in their daily lives is astounding. Each chapter in Peranakan Chinese Home focuses on a different area and presents objects used or found in those spaces. Each |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- Southeast Asia
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Architecture, Chinese -- Southeast Asia
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Decorative arts, Peranakan.
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Peranakan (Asian people) -- Dwellings
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Architecture, Chinese
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Architecture, Domestic
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Decorative arts, Peranakan
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Southeast Asia
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ong, A. Chester (Andrew Chester)
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ISBN |
1462911854 |
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9781462911851 |
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